Cognos Interview Questions, Answers for Freshers and Experienced asked in various Company Job Interviews

Cognos Interview Questions

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Hi all... how can we publish packages using bmp scripts to Path:Public Folder Packages Folder

IBM,

2757

dumps needed ASAP for - C2020-180 Cognos IBM Certification

Aptech,

2203

If you have a report with list and cross tab in the same page. How do you restrict one user can see only the list and the other user can see both.

IBM,

4 9368

Usage of Stored Procedures in Cognos

General Motors GM, TCS,

1 3823

can any one explain about blue prints&performance tuning in cognos?

TCS,

1 3762

What are the best practices while building a Cognos Framework Manager Package ? As in, what calculations would you not like to be handled in FM and rather get it directly from Database.

3 6905

Explain the workflow of your current project from end to end?what is the steps?

Accenture, Cap Gemini, Cognizant, HCL, IBM, Infosys, Nokia,

2 8780

What is Cognos Mashup Services .what is the use of Cognos Mashup Services and where to use.

1 3989

In one of my report i have one data item sales_amount. If this report is run by one user from india so the sales_amount should be display in indian repees(Rs.) format, if USA user then in dollers($), if UK user then In Pounds.Hou can i achive this? Please answer me.

Accenture, HCL, IBM,

4 9175

How to generate the Catalog in Cognos? Basically all post describing generating the Catalog from cognos impromptu . Is there any way to generate the Catalog using Cognos Administration or Framework Manager?

HCL,

2050

Are you aware of any limitations in Cognos?

HCL,

1 3018

can we insert list report in corsstab report?

JPMorgan Chase,

1 3995

i want to create a crosstab report where product will be on rows year on column and revenue on measure. based on the users selection in value prompt, if user select the August 15, crosstab year column should display values for aug 15, aug 14, aug 13 and aug 12 i.e for last for years but same month. how could we achieve this?

JPMorgan Chase,

1 3992

can we create master detail report where master and detailed container is separate?

JPMorgan Chase,

2 5252

which table we load first in DW. dimension or fact? why?

IBM, JPMorgan Chase,

4 7898

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Un-Answered Questions { Cognos }

in u r data u having duplicates how to fetch the latest data in our report?

5729

Can you define cognos impromptu?

1025

What is called Cognos powerplay?

1079

what are slowly changing dimensions? Why we are used scd?

1122

What are the different types of important services used in cognos?

1014

What actually a project contains?

1092

how to merge 2 crosstabs thans

2637

What do you understand by ‘ibm predictive maintenance and quality’?

989

1)diff between shortcut-key and alias table? 2)what is unit testing? 3)what is scorecard?

3564

-----------------What is Determination Model?

2132

I have created a database "TestingDB" in MS SQL Server 2005. I have set the port properties and the Cognos Service is up. But I don't see anything in the Cognos. In the administration i have set the ODBC connection and it tested successfully.If i copy the samples to the appropriate directory then i can see the samples.But I don't know how to do the same thing with my own database "TestingDB". As i have configure the cognos in my company which is having a database (very near to production database).I am a novice in cognos. Please help me out.

2086

What do you mean by drill through report?

964

Can you define cognos powerplay?

1083

What is difference between content store and content manager?

975

What is meant by alternate drill down with ex?

1080

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